crazybeautiful | | Cast : | Kirsten Dunst, Jay Hernandez | | Director : | John Stockwell | | Studio : | Walt Disney Home Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | June 29, 2001 | | DVD Released Date : | July 01, 2003 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Original Language), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 31, 2005 | | Summary | Average story, two good actors | Content
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"Crazy/Beautiful" made me cringe a few times. It was kind of like watched two drunk, underage girls gyrate on a table in an inappropriate setting. That seems like a good metaphor, plus I just described one of the key scenes in the movie, where Nicole (Kirsten Dunst) and her friend do exactly that at a shabby taco joint.
The story line is fairly simple: two young people fall in love even though their families are against their relationship and live happily ever after. These two young people happen to be a depressed, rich white girl (Nicole) with few prospects and a hard-working Mexican immigrant (Carlos) who excels in school and sports. You know exactly what's going to happen at the end of the movie, but watching the two lovebirds struggle to achieve happiness is largely enjoyable.
The two main actors Dunst and Hernandez play their parts well. The story is fairly fast-paced with a few good plot twists. The character development is ok, but for an "unconventional" love story, it seems to be full of clichés: the white girl who supposedly has everything is neglected by her rich father and emotionally unstable, the Mexican guy has to work ten times harder than everyone else to prove himself and succeeds. There are lots of people like this in real life, the characters ARE believable, but I never quite understood why a guy like Carlos would fall for a girl like Nicole?! Maybe it's just the raging hormones high school students have, but they did seem like a bit of an odd couple.
What is portrayed best in this movie is the lifestyle so many rich white children lead in their roomy, suburban mansions. They are viewed as lucky and content by most, but they are usually the most lonely and confused in high school, and according to a magazine I read the other day three times more likely to take drugs than most inner city students.
Anyway, let's get back on track: I'd give this movie 3 out of 5 stars for a well acted, fairly interesting story. Nothing all too provocative or new, but it has enough pleasures to carry the day.
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| Rating | | | Date | July 25, 2005 | | Summary | Great | Content
| This movie is soo good. I loved it so much. When I read the back of the movie, I didn't think it would be all that great. Then I watched it and I fell inlove. I would highly recommend watching this movie!!! |
| Rating | | | Date | June 09, 2005 | | Summary | Amazing,Crazy,Beautiful A review by: Melendez | Content
| I really love this movie. Of course many would debate and say that this is just a typical teen movie, but it's not, it goes beyond that. This movie revolves around an interacial relationship between 2 very different humans. Usually this would be an easy target for a typical Hollywood plot, but somehow it just works. The actors Jay Hernandez(so hot!) and Kirsten Dunst really enhance and bring life to the movie. It shows how this girl Nicole is wealthy and can't be controlled by her father, while on the other end, Carlos is a guy opposite to Nicole and who is poor but manages to do good in school, etc. It demonstraits how Carlos tames Nicole and in a sense shapes her into someone different. It gives meaning to the saying, "opposites attract." I also really love how Carlos is Mexican and Nicole is white it explores relationships that are "mixed." Myself, a Mexican can say that it's okay to have interacial relationships, somehow Carlos's and Nicole's give more richness to the qulity of the movie because it seems to me that at first the thought of what Carlos's mother and brothers says affects his actions towards the relationship, because they don't want him to be with a white girl and Carlos's mom even pushes him to talk to the mexican girl from the party. But Carlos then denies what they say and doesn't care what they think anymore because he comes to believe that he loves her and that their love is pure and can conquer all. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 11, 2005 | | Summary | A movie for all ages! | Content
| I saw this movie when I was in my mid-twenties, and only now after reading some of the reviews did it occur to me that it might really have been directed at teenagers! I suppose all the main characters are in high school, yes, but this isn't a teen-only movie. The storyline is excellent, all about love and doing what is "cool" vs. what is responsible in high school. I really enjoyed seeing Kirsten Dunst's character develop. Both Dunst and Hernandez are excellent actors in this movie.
I was so captivated by the magic of this storyline that I had no interest in watching any of the out-takes or behind the scenes stuff. I prefer to leave this movie as the wonderful love and growing up story it was, without focusing on how each scene was set up and directed. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 03, 2005 | | Summary | extremadamente bonita | Content
| the movie is so beautiful.jay hernandez is so hot. la pelicula esta muy bonita. la historia, la actuacion,los actores. todo en esta pelicula esta maravilloso no me canso de ver esta pelicula.wow que pelicula!!
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